This species was first described by Linnaeus in his Systema naturae in 1758 as Motacilla oenanthe. The generic name, Oenanthe, is also the name of a plant genus, the water dropworts, and is derived from the Greek ainos "wine" and anthos "flower", from the wine-like scent of the flowers. In the case of the wheatear, it refers to these birds' return to Greece in the spring just as the grapevines blossom.
Its English name has nothing to do with wheat or ears, but is an altered (perhaps bowdlerised) form of white-arse, which refers to its prominent white rump.
Blox to that. They are back......
| Northern
Wheatear |
| 2009 |
15-Mar |
| 13-Oct |
| 2010 |
20-Mar |
| 01-Oct |
| 2011 |
30-Mar |
| 14-Oct |
| 2012 |
16-Mar |
| 07-Oct |
| 2013 |
23-Mar |
| Oct |
| 2014 |
20-Mar |
| 12-Oct |
| 2015 |
18-Mar |
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